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I am a skeptoid fanboy. I will admit it. The podcast is a great resource for the beginner skeptics out there.

The recent October 28th podcast covered his list of the 10 most wanted celebrities who endorse harmful pseudoscience. Now I must specify that he does not want these people to be hurt or harmed, he simply wants people to be aware of how dangerous following these people can be.

There are figures on both the right and the left politically, but all are taken to task for the harmful ideas they promote. Guess who is number 1: Oprah Winfrey. A magazine I read about a year ago called Oprah the closest thing America has to a living Deity. All the more reason to take whatever she says with a truckload of salt.

The rest of the list:

Oprah Winfrey – Jumping on every Alternative Bandwagon that comes along

Jenny McCarthy – Anti-Vaccination

Prince Charles – Alternative Medicine

Bill Maher – Alternative Medicine

Larry King – Bad Journalism

Pamela Anderson – PETA

Ben Stein – Comparing Science to Nazism, Creationism

Joe Rogan – 9/11 Truther, et al.

Chuck Norris – Christianity

Montel Williams – psychics

I urge you to check this podcast out. It’s only about 10 minutes long to listen to and even faster to read.